Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Never hate an enemy

Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.