There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

Sadly, in this country - maybe this is in the history of the world, really - it's the urban experience versus the bucolic experience. And it is different, but therein lies the slow progression of democracy. We are a melting pot.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.