Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.