Having seen what I've seen in South Sudan, there's no way I can't talk about it.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.