Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.