I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.'

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'