I Play A Lot Of Chess. I

I Never Thought I Was Good Enough Actually To Write.

I'm Very Loving And Supporting Of My Actors. I Also Expect Them To Show Up Prepared, Happy To Be There, And Give Their All As I Do As An Actor.

I Worked With Creative People Who Were Very Demanding Of Me, And They Helped Me Reach Performances That I Never Could Have Gotten On My Own Without Being Pushed And Having Trust In Them. And So I Know The Best Way To Get The Best Performance Of An Actor, And That's Not To Coddle Them Or To Baby Them. It's To Help Them; It's To Push Them.

There Have Been Times I Almost Got A Persecution Complex. I Felt Like People Wouldn't Let Me Grow Up. They Always Saw Me As A Smiling Kid Or Goofy Teenager, No Matter How Much I'd Changed.

I Was Very Outgoing, And A Good-looking Kid. I Started Doing All The Catalogs. I Made 60 Commercials By The Time I Was 6. I Must Have Been A Natural, Because I Never Took An Acting Lesson.