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Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.