I think talking about one's love life is always. . . It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.
Don't live your life to please other people.