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.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.

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.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

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