If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

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.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

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.