Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.
It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.
A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled.
Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.
