I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.