I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

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.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.