My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.