I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.

One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities.

Without education, you really can't dream as a child.

For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.