I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

You're your own play.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.