I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

There is always that choice, the light or the dark

Why I let you talk me into these things, I’ll never understand. One day you’re going to get me into some serious trouble, " Rowan said, shaking his head.

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.