I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.