I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.