For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.