I think I worked way harder for the female directors than the male ones. There’s nothing like women challenging each other to really make you do your best.

Every single job is fun, but I like it to be a mix of knowing what you’re going to do every day, with learning something every day."

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It’s a challenge, because you’re doing a mix of scenes and you’re making a person."

But as a kid you take it very personally when your parents divorce.

I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.

Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies.