I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

I'm not a very fast-paced person.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Growth is never by mere chance it is the result of forces working together.

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.