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New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it's a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.

I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.