To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.

I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to.

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.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).