As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo….

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing..

If I had the chance to spend a day with Werner Herzog, I would want there to be a canoe involved. I want to be down in Patagonia or something, and ki….

I have this strength that comes from knowledge..

Are you making life or is life making you?.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative..

As you are, you see everything else..

Power is intoxicating..

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding.

You can't be what you can't see..

Politics is who gets what, when, how..

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker..

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love..

Confidence and hope do more good than physic..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

Life is about coming back and mastering how to come back..

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion..

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it..

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!.