Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.