If Your Movies Don't Perform,

For A Lot Of Actors, Our Biggest Fear Is That We're Going To Start Talking About Things We Don't Fully Understand And Sound Like Idiots.

I Was Never That Much A Focus Of Interest That I Became A 'thing' At An Earlier Point In My Career. I'm Aware Of Having Become A 'thing' Now, Which Doesn't Give Me A Lot Of Pleasure.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.

I Can't Think Of Any More Important Value To Instill In Our Children Than The Desire To Help Others. I Feel Strongly About Setting An Example For Them. Real Problems Can Be Solved By The Next Generation If We Instill In Them The Right Values.

I Started Really Young, Like 12 Or 13, And Then I Started Doing School Plays. We Had A Really Good Drama Department, So The Kind Of Drama-geek Stigma Wasn't Really There In My High School.