Skip is one of my mentors. I get a lot of my ideas from other teachers, so I have lots of teachers to thank. The thing about teaching is, I constantly get to learn.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone’s stage or in front of someone’s camera.

[Young men hold their children. Grown-ups clap and chortle at first downs, the most joyous noises this center has seen.] For 60 minutes they’ll try to make us happy, … It’d be a hell of...

I’m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion.

Basquiat — Story of Graffiti Artist Basquiat,

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry – except that he wasn’t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

It will revolutionize the approach and the underwriting of satellite risks. This is not about offering cheap insurance. It is about rewarding the best companies in the business with premiums, which reflect the risk. It...

The great thing about movies is that they’re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they’re collaborative.

It’s a modernized version of Julius Caesar. It was originally set in Chicago, but we’ve moved the location to post-Katrina New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It’s seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of...

He has such an incredible range, … He can be very, very subtle or he can be explosive, depending on what the character is, and he has an incredible human compassion thing that I read...

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything’s...

The drink is in the category called the caffeinated malt beverage category.

And it’s one reason why I don’t go to a lot of movies – they’re more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do...

I like New York because you’re kind of forced to smell everybody else’s funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

He discovered he had a remarkable singing voice.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can’t do it. They don’t have the chops.