When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

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.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

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.

Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

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

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.