I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

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.

When it rains soup, the poor man has no spoon

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor

Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.