The first step is you have to say that you can.

The keys to life are running and reading.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.