I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.