Alessandro Nivola

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.