It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.