I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.