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" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "

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" I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. "

" I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. "

" My father was the quintessential husband and dad. "

" I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. "

" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "

" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. "

" I'm a good person. "

" I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. "

" An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. "

" I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. "

" I don't very often read novels. "

" I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "

" I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. "

" History passes the final judgment. "

" I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. "

" My wife collects knickknacks. "

" My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name. "

" Jackie Robinson is a true legend. "

" I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life. "

" I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. "

" So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. "

" I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life. "

" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "

" The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. "

" So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. "

" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me. "

" Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth. "

" I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. "

" The journey has been incredible from its beginning. "

" My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me. "