The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Be independent, ad do what you will.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

the most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

I'm really into mainstream rap and R&B, but I never saw myself as intertwined in that world.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

Our code of conduct is definitive; it is not negotiable.