Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed or black people have been portrayed in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

If I look at the message I'm portraying I think it definitely is be who you are but be your best you.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan as portrayed by Milton.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

The principles of true art is not to portray but to evoke.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.