Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

That's the cool thing about relationships. You're relating to someone else. It's another thing to balance who you are off of.

I think social media has a lot of negative impact and negative effects. These are fairly extreme and horrifying and really gruesome.

It's always interesting when you throw two people in a room and have them try to biologically, immediately connect, but that's biology's job.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.