People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.