Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.