It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.