All these films are very dramatic, very emotional, but they happen to be about some really important contemporary political and social themes.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

I once made the mistake of telling someone that I always wanted to be a barrister - and I got a pitying look, flollowed by an article along lines 'the poor little tart thinks she could get a proper job, but look at the way she photographs'

It's really about some really important topics that are being debated hotly right now in the media about Africa.

There are so many films I'd love to do, ... And I'd really love the chance to work with Jim Sheridan. What a big heart he has.

We thought we would just feel sorry for these people, and that would have been patronizing, ... They had great material poverty but great spiritual wealth, it seemed to me.