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

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

I'm not in business to make money.

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

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.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

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.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.