“You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.”

But somehow I’ve gotta find a way to play this.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I’m grateful for.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I’ve never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them,

The world isn’t what you think it is.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don’t know what art is.

I lay the clothes out on the floor with the shoes and socks,

It’s easy to actually get the ink on the page

On the last day of every character I’ve ever played

And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

So that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That’s the way you have to leave them.

As an actor, often you’re stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them – for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

You mortgage yourself sometimes.

And its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

I’m only the messenger.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia.

Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.

My mom is a senator back home in South Africa.

I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me.