To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

I don't very often read novels.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

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.