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.

You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.