I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

Silence by any other name is called shame.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.