If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.