Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.