I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.