No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.