The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these people? Where are you going now? It's kind of like how somebody describes private flying: It's hours of monotony punctuated by moments of stark terror. That's what it's like anywhere in the world, whether you're in Texas or Bucharest.
The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.