I had to get some real ballplayers and real umpires to give instructions,

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going, … And then you do another one and it is a great film.

because there are a lot of characters that aren’t followed through.

You are not even a nigger. You are African,

You can’t help but learn something from this experience,

There’s a little bit of awe you have in Terry, and so it makes you deeply committed to him and the process, … C.

If you’re older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to...

He had one scene, one scene, and I think he had one line. And he was a director, and I was the actor auditioning. It was a spoof on what happens in Hollywood.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you’re willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year,...

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

The corn that is B something 5 corn that’s been genetically altered in the United States, it can’t reproduce but it has huge kernels, it’s very sweet and it’s wonderful but the winds have blown...

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It’s always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here’s a place...

You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so...

If you feel you have a film that’s valid, you stick your ass on the line.

If it’s ball four, all you have to do is say ‘ball four,’ … You don’t have to say ‘take your base.’