When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.