You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

I am the me I choose to be.