I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Comedy Central was a great network, but ‚Chappelle’s Show‘ took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the ‚Chappelle‘ reruns. For BET, the ‚Real Husbands of Hollywood‘ has that same potential.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

My shows are not narratives.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I like Cardi B!

I like a drama.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

I sell escapism.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Everybody loved ‚The A-Team‘ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘