Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.

Let's fix what's broken about Obamacare, but let's not throw it away and give it all back to the insurance companies and the drug companies.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

One thing the coupe never got? ROOF

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.