I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

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.

Laws are make to be broken, but when you brake them, you either pay with money or with your freedom"Beta

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.