I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off - off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved - the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.