To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

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

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.