My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.
I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.
What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.
In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer…
Why does it take a man's attention to make me see anything good about myself?
I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)
I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
