One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

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.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.