I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.