I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and I asked her about a woman leaving her husband. I asked her about how she would feel about that woman, and my mother grew up in the Church Of God In Christ, and she told me that the woman might be isolated because the other women thought she might go and come after their husbands. That's how they thought then.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.