Movies are movies, television is television.
I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.
There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty...
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not j...
When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.
What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.