I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.