I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.