Say what you really want to say.

I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.

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

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

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

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.