It's Funny, But Three Of My Early

In General, I'm Always Interested In Characters Who Have Kind Of Extreme Aspects To Them, Who Are In Some Ways Larger Than Typical People.

There Are Some Directors Who Don't Like The Set Much. They Like Post-production, Where You Have All The Ingredients In The Can - You've Got All The Footage, All The Music, The Various Effects - And Then You Have To Do The Alchemy Necessary To Make It All Good, A Long And Very Key Process Of Putting Everything Together And Making It Into The Cogent Thing That You Want.

In My Career, I've Had Kind Of A Strange Trajectory As An Actor. I Started Out Doing Movies And Theater And Stuff, But Then I Had A Terrible Problem With Stage Fright As An Actor On Stage, And I Quit Stage Acting For A Long, Long Time.

Well, Because I Have Twin Seven-year-old Boys, I Enjoy The Gift Giving Stuff A Great Deal. We Do Both Hanukkah And Christmas, So It Is A Costly, Though Extremely Pleasing Proposition.

I'm One Of Relatively Few Stage-trained Actors Who Doesn't Much Like Acting On Stage. It Feels Kind Of Like Riding The Cyclone At Coney Island, Which I Did When I Was Eight. When It Was All Over, I Was Glad I Had Done It, But Most Of The Time When It Was Actually Happening, I Was Just Kind Of Hanging On For Dear Life.