I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.