When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways. It's amazing that I get to create every day, as an actor, or a director, or a writer, and I get to do it in a variety of different genres and worlds and characterizations. I think that's the great privilege of what we do, we get to make believe. I get to go to so many different places, try on different occupations, take on different points of view. That's what's always been sort of alluring.

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.