I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

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.

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 boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

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

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.