You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.