“And I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.”

Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job.

I think anybody who’s famous has to deal with their fame in their own way.

So my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, ’cause it’s a nice balance to the weightlifting.

The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we’re all gonna die and we need to save ourselves.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much – then they get used to it.

I’m a filmmaker, I’m a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate?

I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general.

It’s what we live for, to be able to make great illusions.

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they’re designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

Happiness doesn’t come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz,

We can’t be naive and think we can go it alone.

Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people.

Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That’s very difficult.

I’m one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

I didn’t go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.

My girl and my kid gets the best, always.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced

Getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.