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

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 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.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up a round me.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.

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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.