“I would imagine it becomes more difficult.”

Learned how to survive without anything.

It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.

My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.

So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don’t have an opportunity to observe.

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.

You meet a pretty girl, you’re different from when you meet a tough kid on the street.

We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn’t have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.

So that isn’t the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment.

I take a lot less for granted.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it’s on a new movie or a new job

If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it’s permanently there as a negative reminder.

And then, it’s out of your control.

I really had a blast.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised – so it’s no longer “in the closet,” as it were. It’s part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.