“The real opportunity America has always offered is the chance to be wh...” — Stephen Schwartz Quote

The real opportunity America has always offered is the chance to be what you want to be and escape being what you don't want to be - though sometimes it's like the line from a song by The Eagles: 'We live our lives in chains and never even know we have the key.'

The idea of a sequel, I don't think it ever occurs while doing a film. A film proves popular, those are always business decisions to make a sequel and then you think about it.

I like long-form projects, watching something develop and come together in a team. You become incredibly close with your collaborators.

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.

What drew me to Kazakhstan was a curiosity to learn about life in this 'middle earth' of steppe between the endless forests of Russia in the north and the world's greatest mountain chains to the south.

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.

Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.