“As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.”

“I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home. ”

“My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.”

“The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.”

“It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?”

“I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.”

“Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.”

“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.”

“My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.”

“Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.”

“Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.”