You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.