I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.

I'm really white trash.

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...