I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.

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.

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.

With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

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.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.