The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.