There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.