At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

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.

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.