Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.