Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

I like strong women. Physical women.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

I grew up drinking eggnog and watching 'It's A Wonderful Life' every Christmas with my family.

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

I forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.