Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.