[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

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.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?