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

You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

I trust Hillary Clinton about as far as I could throw Donald Trump.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.