Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.