I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.