I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

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

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.