Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.