I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.