I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.

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

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.