All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.
[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.
I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.
Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the director get them back on track. When you do loosen up the reins, you get some amazing things, but you have to wring out the performances for every last good drop.
I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.
I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.
Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.
Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening