Painters Get Up And Paint. Writers Get

Hair Is Very, Very Distinctive. I Started That With That Boxing Movie I Did, The Great White Hype. The Director Wanted Me To Look Like Don King, And Everybody Knew Who Don King Was. But I Didn't Want To Be Don King. I Wanted The Man To Be Rev. Fred Sultan, So I Decided To Make Him Look Like Julius Caesar. And From That Point On, I Just Decided, I Had This Great Wig-maker, So I Just Found Hairstyles That I Felt Would Be Distinctive For Every Character. Like An Adventure.

Those Are The Rules. To Improvise In A Movie With Other People, When They're Following A Script, Everybody Has To Know What's Going On. I Think A Line Or Two We Might Change. Certainly, I Do. But I Wouldn't Call It Improvising. I'd Call It Fudging The Lines.

Because Of Where I Come From, I Never Thought I'd See In My Life A Black Candidate Running For President.

There Are Tons Of Stories Out There. I Read A Lot Of Scripts On A Weekly Basis. I'm Looking For Stories To Tell And Stories That I Hope Will Be Interesting To An Audience.

I Have A Lot More Energy Than I Used To Have. I Sleep Better. I Like The Way I Look In My Clothes Better. I Don’t Cramp As Much. I Exercise Better. I Think My Circulation Has Gotten Better.