The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against 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.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.