My wife collects knickknacks.

I'm a good person.

I'm not a library.

I get offered work these days.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else’s vision of me.

The willingness to receive help and appreciate its value when it arrives, sometimes unannounced, is a subject that returns us to the question of why and how our lives turn out as they do.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don’t think it’s necessarily deserved.

I’m telling you this so that if you ever are in the position of carrying a secret about something that you have done that makes you ashamed you will make the choice to confront yourself. It will take guts to admit that you have behaved in a way that prevents you from being your better self, and then choose to act differently. It.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It’s everywhere.

John Cassavetes once gave me some advice that has proved invaluable... He said, ‘We’re good friends, but never, ever do an artistic favor for a friend. Loan friends money, be there for them in every other way, but don’t do them any artistic favors, because you’ve got to have one area of your life where there’s no room for compromise.