The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.