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.

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.'

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

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