It's not always about 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.

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.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

I really had no idea when I pitched the series that it would lead to so much fun and so much connecting with kids and moms.

She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.