[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

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

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.