I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.

I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.