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.

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.

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.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Sometimes that's what prayer is--simply inviting God to join us where we actually are, not because He isn't already here but because inviting Him reminds us it's true.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Self-confidence. Let's fight the demon that makes you look smaller than you truly are.

They’ve made her something else now.

All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds!

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.