Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.

We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility