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.

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.

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.

A ‘biomass’ man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.