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.

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Democracy is about criticism.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

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