I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh. |
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. |
Black history is American history. |
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. |
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. |
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'. |
And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter. |
If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind. |
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it. |
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. |
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. |
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? |
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in. |
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. |
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. |
All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that. |
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. |
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. |
I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. |
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. |