I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

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

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.