When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.
Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.
People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.
I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was talking about?' 'What if I didn't get excited?'