I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.
John KrasinskiTo be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars, because as you can see, they're very intimate, very intense scenes. You don't want to break the actor's character and you don't want to break their momentum, so as the actor, I tried not to call cut as much as I could, and almost make it feel like a play, just set this environment where these amazing actors could do what they wanted to do.
John KrasinskiKeeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].
John KrasinskiI was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked on in college. A friend of mine asked me to do a stage reading of that book and I was just completely blown away because, at that point, I was like, 'Acting's having fun with your friends and making people laugh.'
John Krasinski