If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.