I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'
It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
