People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

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

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."