My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me, because people really think they have me pegged. I want to do something different, like maybe do a space movie or a musical.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

Music dispels misery.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine

The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.