I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.