Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

You never know how you're going to affect people.

We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried.