Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.

Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.