If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history.

I walk by faith, not by sight.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.