I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.