All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

I want paint to work as flesh.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

I want to keep my private life private.