High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

What’s interesting about you is you.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.