I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.