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

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and I asked her about a woman leaving her husband. I asked her about how she would feel about that woman, and my mother grew up in the Church Of God In Christ, and she told me that the woman might be isolated because the other women thought she might go and come after their husbands. That's how they thought then.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!