You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I'm going to quit writing.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.