Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.