This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

You dont need a love scene to show love.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

Your secret sin vs your destiny you decide which one wins.

Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

You can ask Beavis... I get nothing but head.

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.