Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me, because people really think they have me pegged. I want to do something different, like maybe do a space movie or a musical.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."Anonymous

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Everybody is doing the best things possible to still healthy and to play as long as possible.