There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.