I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.