Matt Bomer

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.