Quotes

Playing completely unrelated roles is a newer opportunity, but I'll never complain about appearing as a newscaster: after all, half the word 'typecast' is 'cast.'

Shooting an episode of "The Purge" in New Orleans 20 minutes after a drenching storm, we waited for a water truck to respray the street and a jazz band on a nearby riverboat to stop playing, so I could deliver my lines about the... eerie quiet. I realized I'm in the craziest business in the world.

I thought CBS provided a real service by having (Michael) Weatherly introduce the virus episode on-camera to explain it was filmed a month before the Corona Virus lockdown. The script was so timely and had so many parallels, it was eerie.

"Very Close Friends" was so far out of my comfort zone, I've asked my friends not to watch it. But if I wanted to show the world I could act against type, I needed to do it; even if it meant shredding my image as a character who's always dependable and trustworthy.

When I was whining to (Steven Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler) that he cut me from 'The Terminal,' she just looked at me and said "Honey, he cut me from 'Catch Me If You Can.' His own mother!" We shook our heads in unison and went back to eating lunch.

At an awards ceremony for "Very Close Friends," I told my co-producer I never wanted to produce another short again. When he approached me with an idea three weeks later, I reminded him of what I'd said. He replied "No problem: it'll be a full-length feature." And that's when we started "The Subcontractors."