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

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.

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.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.