[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a bigger role that Rob [Lowe] was already set to play, so the role they wanted me to audition for was Alec. [Director] Joel Schumacher... this is back in the days when you could trick me with things like this. He goes, "Don't you think you can play it?" And I go, "Okaaaaay." So then I did it for all the wrong reasons but I don't think I would fall for that again. Who knows. I might.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

[St. Elmo's Fire] it was pretty soon after that. I know we didn't do Breakfast Club knowing we were going to do that.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.