It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.