The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.