The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.