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

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

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

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?"

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.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.

Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

Twitter is the world.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.