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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.