There are definitely movies that I can’t be in because the Chinese will say, ‘Not with him,’ i recently had an episode where someone said they couldn't finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese.

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Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

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I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

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The most important thing for these people here is to be able to get to a free port, to get off the boat, to get on land and start a new life, please support us here on Open Arms and help these people, our brothers and sisters.

Now the first thought that came to me was, I wondered if Deng Xiaoping is actually watching this right now, with Deng Xiaoping children and Deng Xiaoping grandchildren, and with the knowledge that what a horrendous, horrendous human rights situation there is in China — not only towards their own people but to Tibet as well.

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Now the first thought that came to me was, I wondered if Deng Xiaoping is actually watching this right now, with his children and his grandchildren, and with the knowledge that what a horrendous, horrendous human rights situation there is in China— not only towards their own people but to Tibet as well.

Actually, it was my agent who was pushing for it much more than I was, i was a little resistant because I was n’t that taken with the stage production. But my agent just really kept pushing. I had just done a very intense movie, Unfaithful, and I thought : ‘ At the very least I ’m going to have fun doing this.' OH, BABY, Harvey Weinstein was still the co-chairman of Miramax Films when Chicago was being made. And the now disgraced movie mogul was adamant at the time that Britney Spears should be given a role in the movie. According to The New York Times, Harvey Weinstein sent three Miramax execs to pitch the idea to Britney Spears backstage at a concert in Canada. But director Rob Marshall and other producers were.

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Everyone else got nominated, i ’m waiting for my name( to be read out in the nominations) and it goes right by me, like, ‘ Wow, what happened ? ’ I have to admit, that got to me.

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I have no interest, none, zero, there's not even a speck of me that goes 'boy, 'I'd really want to be a politician,'.

I was doing things in ‘Gigolo’ and even ‘Officer and a Gentleman,’ and it was pretty sexy, i suppose all of us were highly influenced by European films. It was much freer. And we felt like, we’re out there in the wilds of Hollywood.

I’m not interested in playing the wizened Jedi in your tentpole, i was successful enough in the last three decades that I can afford to do these [smaller films] now.

The thing that heals people is not money and it is not governments. It is people heal people. It is people who care about each other and look each other in the eye, you want to hear their story and people who want to hear your story. And these human connections is what heals us, certainly emotionally, psychologically but even physically that's the beginning of healing us in all ways.