I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

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

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

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.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

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

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.