Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
Denzel WashingtonIn 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."
Denzel WashingtonI always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.
Denzel WashingtonAs 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?
Denzel Washington