I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.

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.

you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life, golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks, that this union soured before it started.

Never split up, better together than one by one to die!

I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme!

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.