I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

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.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

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