Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.