What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.

I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.