A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.