Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

The first instinct is love.

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