Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.