It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.