I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

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

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

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

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.