You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.

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.

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.

Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time

Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Fate does not always seek our consent.