With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.