I'm As Serious As A Heart Attack.

I Often Think, "how Many Ways Have I Died In The Movies?" I Guess I Can Find Out Now. I'm Always Thinking Of Ways That I Haven't Died. "well, I've Been Killed This Way In This Movie, But I Haven't Died This Way Yet." I Don't Think I've Ever Been Guillotined, Or Anything Like That.

I Run Into A Lot Of Kids Who Are Either On R&r, Or On Their Way To Iraq. They All Know Who I Am And Are Fans, But They're Kids! I Am Yet To Meet One That's Over 23. Yet They're Full-time Warriors.

I Was Gator In Jungle Fever, And Chris Rock Played Pookie, And Those Showed Two Very Different Dynamics Of What Crackheads Were. Mine Was More About The Family Relationships. So When People Sat There And Got That, They Can Sit There And Say, "oh, Man, That's My Friend." Or "that's My Brother." Or Cousin Or Somebody. They Empathize, Or They Had Something That They Could Latch Onto, In That Particular Movie, Of My Story, And Go With It.

Everybody Likes An Extraordinary Person Or Likes To Think That They Would Be Great With A Superpower In An Ordinary World.

Hair Is Very, Very Distinctive. I Started That With That Boxing Movie I Did, The Great White Hype. The Director Wanted Me To Look Like Don King, And Everybody Knew Who Don King Was. But I Didn't Want To Be Don King. I Wanted The Man To Be Rev. Fred Sultan, So I Decided To Make Him Look Like Julius Caesar. And From That Point On, I Just Decided, I Had This Great Wig-maker, So I Just Found Hairstyles That I Felt Would Be Distinctive For Every Character. Like An Adventure.