Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.