I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.