I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I don't very often read novels.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.