The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.