[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

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.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.