You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

My dad is an egomaniac.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.

The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.