There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.
I don't have much interest in gingerbread houses - except in eating them.
I like romance in films. I like love in films.
I haven't watched a lot of television, but when I was kid, I watched 'All in the Family,' and I liked Archie and Edith a lot.
Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.
Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.
Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.
'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.
When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'
When I'm doing a drama, I like to find the comedy; when I'm doing a comedy, I like to find the heart and drama.
I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.
I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.
For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.
A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.
I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.
When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'
I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.
