I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

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

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.