When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.