For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.