Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.
It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'
They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'