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

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.