I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

Life is a very emotional experience.

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

You can fly as high as you can.

peoples see more those thing which they can't see, and they see less to which they can see properly.

If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.