Our Problem Is Civil Obedience

The Danger Of Course Is Always Is Caricature. The Biggest Challenge Was To Sound Like Nelson Mandela. Everything Else Is Easy To Do, Walk Like Him. He Has A Few Ticks And Things I Noticed That I Picked Up. I Didn't Have Any Agenda, As It Were, In Playing The Role Other Than To Bring It As Close To Reality As I Possibly Could.

I Didn't Grow Up With Great Privilege, Nor Did I Grow Up Wanting For Anything. I Was A Middle-class Kid And, Relative To The Rest Of The World, That's Great Wealth.

Now That I Have Kids, I'm Probably More Overprotective Than I've Ever Been. My Wife's Nickname For Me Is "red Alert." I Sometimes Check Just To See If The Kids Are Breathing. But I Try Not To Be A Helicopter Parent.

The Only Way I Can Describe It-at The End Of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, You Know How His Heart Grows Like Five Times? Everything Is Full; It's Just Full All The Time.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.