When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet freedom and peace in the world.