Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.

I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.