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My Father Was A Certain Kind Of Man - I Saw How He Treated My Mother And His Family And How He Treated Strangers. And I Vowed I Would Never Make A Film That Would Not Reflect Properly On My Father's Name.

I Am Not A Hugely Religious Person, But I Believe That There Is A Oneness With Everything. And Because There Is This Oneness, It Is Possible That My Mother Is The Principal Reason For My Life.

We Suffer Pain, We Hang Tight To Hope, We Nurture Expectations, We Are Plagued Occasionally By Fears, We Are Haunted By Defeats And Unrealized Hopes . . . The Hoplessness Of Which I Speak Is Not Limited.

So I'm Ok With Myself, With History, My Work, Who I Am And Who I Was.

I Was Born Two Months Early, And Everyone Had Given Up On Me. But My Mother Insisted On My Life.