And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia