I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

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.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

I just love the process of working with other actors.