The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

I hurt someone's feelings once.