I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.