I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

Each person shows something different, in every challenge that they come across.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.