Denzel Washington Quotes

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler’s List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it’s as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn’t see that.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don’t have to know everybody’s approach.

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then – I know I help that, let’s put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.

I’ve always felt protected. That’s the God’s honest truth.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I’ve just directed a film called The Great Debaters, which is inspired by a true story about a young college debating team in the thirties and two of those people are still alive and we put them on tape on the film and I’m sure that will be added to the DVD, and to get the opportunity to do that is very cool.

Hate put me in prison. Love’s gonna bust me out.

If it ain’t on a page, it ain’t on a stage.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.