I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

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.

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

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

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

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

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.