Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

You have to really understand and appreciate who are you are and know who you are and what you have to offer people - not just a man but people! This helps you have something to stand on. Know your value and what makes you valuable so you can always go back to this. ”

Generally, when I'm going to a new project, I take my own makeup. I'll explain to them what it is that I would like. If they are receptive, we figure it out together. If they're not, I'll be going to back to my trailer and doing my own makeup. And that's the same for hair. ”

I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard. ”

You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and pick yourself up again. And putting yourself back together, that improves on what you were before. ”

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in. ”

I don't think I'm going to look back and wish that I spent more time worrying about my muscles or fat or whatever. ”

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story. ”

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen at most film festivals. You take the bus while everybody else is flown first-class. If you're a feature film director, you're put in a five-star hotel, and if you're a documentary director, you stay in a Motel 6. ”

You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good. ”

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads. ”