It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.