Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.

Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.