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.

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.

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

A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.

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

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

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.