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

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

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.

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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.