Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.