People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this stuff that's so close to me.

There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.