A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain to their people why they should take one side or the other side. But in the movie its doing the opposite. It allows you to have a Universal Experience. You don't watch it as politics but as a movie. You don't have different reactions all over. It's so universal a language. It's not a political language serving a political agenda. The language of cinema is a world language. With the Hollywood movie, it brings about the same reaction wherever it goes.

When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.