Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.