You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

I still feel like a nerd.

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.