In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.