You know, I’m not saying, “Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.” I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, “can I not say no to it for whatever reason?”

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.