We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.