Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.