I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.

I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?

I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.