I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.

Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon plays-not that they're bad, but you can only take so much.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.

When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There's a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share your past with somebody. It's really empowering when you're reunited with people who share that.