The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.