We were all Romans once, I guess.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

The world is as it should be.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

Writing is the beast unto itself.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

We were all Romans once, I guess.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on whats known as brotherhood.

If someone saves your life you develop a brotherhood no matter what your race.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.

You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

I never though much about race.

People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.