When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

I'm not in business to make money.

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.