I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

You dont need a love scene to show love.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Love is the brightest star in the soul's sky.

Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.