Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

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

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.