I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.