There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.