I believe in God, absolutely.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

Invest in people who don´t deserve it yet.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.