Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.