In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

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.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

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.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.