I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

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.

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

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

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

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