"Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of."

"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you."

"Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting."

"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South."

"Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm."

"It's hard to force creativity and humor."

"If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious."

"The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism."