If the cultural elite has its way, the U. S. will be much more like Europe
I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
I've been smokin' ever since I was two.
I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.