My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

Democracy is about criticism.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.