So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

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

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.

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

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.