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.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

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

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

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

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

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.