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.

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.

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.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.