I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

Spiritual maturity testifies of one’s level of patience

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.