I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."