I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I'm really a one-man band.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.