And we didn't even get the Mickey Mouse show gig, which made for a very depressing train ride back home to Boston.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

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.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.