As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.