You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

A man is only as rich as the people around him

Credinta, oricat de pasionata, de pura, de arzatoare, nu spune absolut nimic despre realitatea existentei lui Dumnezeu

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

There is no such thing as no chance.

Discipline is consistency of action.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.