I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

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.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.