I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.