You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.