“I’m not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now.”

What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.

So let the storm rage. Let the storm rage.

The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren’t for them, the reactor would explode.

A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

I’ve been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that’s not really there, but it wasn’t hard with Halle because she’s a great person and very beautiful, so it ain’t a tough job at the end of the day.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

It’s very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

You spend your whole life convincing yourself you are a chapter worth following, and then someone comes along and doesn’t want to read the ending, and suddenly the whole story falls apart.

The best content is the means, not the end.

The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.

I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen