It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an audience that this horrible thing is enjoyable. The suffering just gets out of hand too much. It becomes pornographic.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films.

It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.