I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

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

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.