Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful PEOPLE. I THINK the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most TEMPERAMENTAL costar I've had. It would throw tantrums LIKE you wouldn't believe.

We FOUND LETTERS at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted FISH. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the WAY it is.

The Caribbean WORLD has changed radically SINCE the 1960S, and postcolonial generations have very DIFFERENT mentalities from those that went before.

I have only EVER been to Antigua to HOP over to other Caribbean islands. The airport had ALWAYS seemed perfectly lovely, but I'm a QUIET sort of holiday girl, and Antigua always seemed BIG.

I'm from the CARIBBEAN, and I LOVE the DANCE HALL SOUND.

My favourite TYPES of CUISINE are ASIAN and Caribbean, and I LOVE cooking new recipes for my family.

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic PLACE, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the EUROPEANS, whether it's the importation of SLAVES and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many WAYS, whether it's the immigrant PROCESSES which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

I don't THINK you can be from the CARIBBEAN and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

My work has been much more Caribbean and ECLECTIC. I am interested in PEOPLE, and where they come from HAPPENS to have fallen within an AREA of Africa.

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' CAME out I REALISED that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think LIFE is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing INDEPENDENT movies and art-house FILMS instead.

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may LOOK at me and think a CERTAIN thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean HERITAGE. I went to YALE. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

I come from an AFRICAN Caribbean background. I've been INFLUENCED by a reggae CHURCH music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused TOGETHER.

'Mvula' is my MARRIED NAME, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just GETTING it WRONG.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The CARIBBEAN' MOVIES and my SOLO career as indie films.

I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn't want to go to university, so I THOUGHT I WOULD wander around. I did a season skiing, a bit of sailing, typical spoilt brat STUFF. I ENDED up in the Caribbean. I was having a blast.