"I’m a performance within a story. One thing I will say to my team as we’re leaving a premiere if they’re reading reviews, I’ll say, 'How’s the movie doing?' I try to clean my plate and take care of my part.
"The response is: 'You’re straight. You’re good. They like you.' And they tell me about the movie. Sometimes the movie is also on that level, and sometimes [it’s not]." He's not bothered about what the critics say because he knows that critics are just people, adding:"They have an opinion. You always have an opinion. I’m no fool. I know these are people writing it.
"These aren’t my Yale professors or my drama teachers. These are people who have kids and they have a perspective, they have a religious upbringing or a lack thereof. They live in this town, or they want to be seen in this way or don’t want to be seen in this way.