You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.