You either get better, or you don't progress.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

I'm an artist at heart.

The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

The people know what the land knows.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.