I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as we are the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.

I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.