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.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I read the Bible every day.