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I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.