A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

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

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.