Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang, that was the most creative moment of all.

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

It’s going to be a pretty day to fly.

If you don't make peace with your own mortality, you'll never know what it's like to truly be alive.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly but it is slowly learnt by heart.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.