In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.

Chance favours the bold.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

I'm always making fun of myself and my friends.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

Another roof, another proof.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.