Once You Leave Sundance Suddenly You Run

I Had Just Arrived In New York From California. I Was Nineteen Years Old And Excited Beyond Belief. I Was An Art Student And An Acting Student And Behaved As Most Young Actors Did - Meaning That There Was No Such Thing As A Good Actor, 'cause You Yourself Hadn't Shown Up Yet.

I Would See My Hometown, Los Angeles, Change. Green Space And Orange Groves Gave Way To Cement, Freeways Flooded With Traffic, And Air Pollution, All In The Name Of "progress." I Felt Like I Was Losing My Home. It Had A Profound Effect On Me, And I Realized Just How Important Nature Was To My Spirit, My Soul, My Point Of View.

It's An Honor Putting Art Above Politics. Politics Can Be Seductive In Terms Of Things Reductive To The Soul.

I Have Faith In The Pendulum Swinging. Right Now It's So Far Against The Wall That It Can't Go Any Farther; It's Gonna Start To Swing Back. That's My Optimism. One Of The Cures Is Gonna Be Getting The American People To Fully Wake Up. All The American People, Particularly Young People, Because They're Gonna Inherit This Earth; They're Gonna Inherit What We're Doing.

I Have A Very Low Regard For Cynics. I Think It's The Beginning Of Dying.