I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.