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

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control