It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen especially 60-feet high. As an actor it is an uncomfortable experience.

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times but out of trial and confusion.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

How do people relate to movies now when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

If we were to select the most intelligent imaginative energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind all races would be present.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Each year I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

When I enrolled in college at age 19 I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman respectable - me it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like 'Oh finally I'm proud of you!'

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy productive well-prepared young people.

Inclusive good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.