A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.