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The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. Everywhere you go, you know?

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.