I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

I'm always moving forward.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Your life isn't determined by your mistakes, but by your determination to keep going despite of them.

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It's the only way.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.