Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like 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.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.