People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

You never know how you're going to affect people.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

I've just directed a film called The Great Debaters, which is inspired by a true story about a young college debating team in the thirties and two of those people are still alive and we put them on tape on the film and I'm sure that will be added to the DVD, and to get the opportunity to do that is very cool.

I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.