Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.