When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.