I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me, because people really think they have me pegged. I want to do something different, like maybe do a space movie or a musical.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

Every day is a dance deed.

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Pacing is really important in an organization.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.

My God, what have we done?