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.

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.

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

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

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

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

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.