Euzhan Palcy

'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.

Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.