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

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Bernie Sanders has inspired millions of people in this country.