Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

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.