In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.