Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.

I've worked with children all my life.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.