All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.