On my tour, either they're coming to see me, or they're not.
I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.
I don't consider myself an image-driven actor. I believe audiences come to watch my films because they are entertaining and not because of my image.
People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.
Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.
People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.
People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.
If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.
