I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

Too bad he was officially the enemy.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

There are so many things in life I hope to experience and attend, but so many more I'm hoping that I miss.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.