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

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.

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.

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

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I like my coffee light.

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.