I have to say that I think Bernie Sanders is the first politician since Dennis Kucinich that I've been truly inspired by. Where you actually are truly speaking truth to power, in a legitimate way and in an unpretentious and very straightforward way.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

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.

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