Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.