The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

I walk by faith, not by sight.

What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."

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

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.