My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

The gift is a grace of God.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.