People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.
You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.
I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling. I never said, "I'll do the play, and the next year I'll do the film, I just wanted to do the play."
In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.
I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!
Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.
I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.
You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Growing up I didn't watch movies.
I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.
[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.
I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.
I've worked with children all my life.
[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.
By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.
I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.
"It's important for us to tell our stories."
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