The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.