There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.