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.

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.

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

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.