My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.