They used to just give them to their own kids. Dad was a big joker when we were young. I found money in my nuts.

When my dad was alive, he would give them to the kids. People didn't have a lot of money, so they did this for gifts.

I wanted to make sure those kids were being served, and I felt like that wasn't happening.

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one.