The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.