I Never Planned To Win An Oscar.

Then I Was Playing The Piano At Eight, And That Helps You Learn About Women Because Most Of The People I Was Playing For Were Women.

What's Weird Is When You Meet A Girl Who Is 23 And You Are Talking To Her, Even Her Voice Is High-pitched, She's Young. You Ask Her How Old She Is, She Says, 'twenty-three, How Old Are You?' And When I Tell Her I'm 41 It's Like I've Just Told Her I Have Cancer. It's, 'oh My God, How Long Have You Had That?'

I've Been A Sports Fan All My Life, And Like Most Other Actors, I'm Convinced I Could Have Been A Pro Athlete If Hollywood Hadn't Come Calling.

In Looking At Hollywood And Its Structure, The Director Controls The Medium, And I Want To Be In Control Of Certain Things. I Want To Be Able To Get My Own Ideas And My Own Feelings Out There, And The Only Way To Do That Is To Be Behind The Camera.

In Our Music, In Our Everyday Life, There Are So Many Negative Things. Why Not Have Something Positive And Stamp It With Blackness?