I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

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.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.