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.

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.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

I've got a cure for mental health issue. Spank your children more.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one