Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

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

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

I think life's an irrational obsession.