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

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

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

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?