My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I've never worried about age.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.