People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.