Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being.

God, I felt as if I had just been flattened by ‘Elmer’ the elephant.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed