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

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.

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 God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.

Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.

There is nothing to fear but to fear the fear itself

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

There is nothing unimportant in the universe.