I just 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.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

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

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 had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

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

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.