If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

So: see ya, and I wouldn't wanna be ya.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.