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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.