It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

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.

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.