We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'