I'm Not Particularly Precious About

To Me, Fight Club Was A Comedy. When [david] Fincher Sent Me The Book And I Read It, The First Thing I Asked Him Was, "this Is A Comedy, Right?" He Said, "yeah, That's The Whole Point," And I Said, "okay, I'm In." I Certainly Wasn't Imagining Myself As A Dramatic Actor When I Was Running Around In My Underwear In That Film.

I'm A Tulsa Jew And I Have A Religious Upbringing.

I'm An Actor, And, Beyond That, The Thing I Do Most Compulsively Is Writing. So I Come At It Very Much From This Sense Of Character. I Get Interested In People. And I Feel Confident In My Capacity To Absorb And Manifest The Characteristics Of People. I Have A Real Auditory Hang-up For Dialogue; Re-creating The Way People Talk Really Is An Addiction In My Brain.

But At The Same Time, The Film Industry Just Got Torched. The Risk Tolerance For The Types Of Movies We're Talking About Is Lower, And The Reason For That Is That The Captains Of The Industry Were Asleep At The Switch When Their Core Business Was Being Disrupted. And They're Never Getting It Back. In A Way, It Makes It All The More Exciting When The Good Ones Get Through.

On The Downside, To Paraphrase Thom Yorke Talking About The Music Business, We're Still Having To Deal With The Stench Of The Last Fart Of The Dying Corpse Of This Regressive Vision That America Is A White, Middle-aged, Male, Conservative Country.