If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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