I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

It's not always about the money.

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I'm just happy to be working consistently.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them