When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

The dreams that surfaced upon meeting up with him again winked out of existence, stars darkening for good.

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Meow, Meow, Motherfucker.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.