Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.