I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.