Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

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

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."