Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

You have to invent life.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.