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

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.

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

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.

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

I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.

You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.