Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

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

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

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.