Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

My education was an education by movies.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.