I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

Where are all the sour patch parents?

I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

Love will put a spring in your step and a bounce in your heart.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.