Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.