Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.