Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Thank God in advance for what's already yours.

Sometimes when you're the good guy, you're sort of trapped. "Oh, he can't say that." And even when you're playing a real person like a Steven Biko, you're sort of stuck within those confines. So yeah, bad guys do have more fun.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.