The older we get the less afraid we are.

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.