I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

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

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

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

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

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.