I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.