You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.