Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.