I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

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

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.