"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."

"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."

"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."

"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."

"Wisdom principle 92 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 95."

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."

"But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see."

"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."