“When a child wants to be accepted, he’ll do anything.”

I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.

I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense.

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

It’s paying homage, very much, to that.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.

He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open.

Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

I was going to go to med school. My father’s dream was that all of his kids become doctors.

And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They’ve seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.