There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

I was trained as a straight dramatist..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story..

It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, thes….

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the cam….

I've never not been famous..

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry..

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are….

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm..

The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the sam….

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reacti….

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor..

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

In cinema, the leading player is the director..

I have to change to stay the same..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..