Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.