One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

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.

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

Changing your words, changes your mind. Changing your mind alters your energy and that is what changes your life.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.