One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
I'm a Mormon, but I share your faith in the atonement of the savior, Jesus Christ. In my faith, we have a guy who gave his life for what he believed in. You don't have to believe it; I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you, "What is it that you believe? Are you willing to give your life?"
Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't want to face what's going on within our communities because some of us crossed over into a different tax bracket, but these issues affect the communities that raised us, so it affects us all.
I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?
As for my dignity. . . the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.