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I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

If you're put on a set with a lot of people, it's just nice to see everyone working together.

My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater.