Still, The Change Is Nearly Indescribable -

It's Pretty Easy To Kind Of Lose Your Way. Having Kids Is Really Helpful. They Kind Of Disabuse You Of The Notion Of Your Greatness Pretty Quickly.

I Knew Very Little About Rugby. But, I Think It Helps In Terms Of An American Audience The Game Is Enough Like Football In That It's A Battle For Field Position And You Score By Running Into What Looks A Lot Like An End Zone. I Think In Terms The Nuance Of The Game, Americans Won't Get That Stuff. I Think In Terms Of The Peanut Butter And Jelly Version Of What You Need To Know, I Think It's Pretty Clear.

I Started Really Young, Like 12 Or 13, And Then I Started Doing School Plays. We Had A Really Good Drama Department, So The Kind Of Drama-geek Stigma Wasn't Really There In My High School.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.

As For Poker, I've Stayed Away From That, Even Though When I Was In Vegas For Ocean's Eleven, I Would Get Accosted By These Guys Begging Me To Play. They Just Want To Take My Money. They See Me, Think 'actor' And See Some Easy Money.