Bruce Springsteen

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.