You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

I'm a 9/11 Republican.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up

I do believe all actors are smart.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite