Doing a film with somebody who's from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them different insights, experiences, cultural norms, and expectations. All of those things can sort of broaden your own understanding of things or provide a different perspective.

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

I never have cash on me.

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one of them.

We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called ""academic finance."" Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings.

When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion.