If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na?