Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

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.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

This girl is magic. She's wild incantations. She's that spark that lit me back to life and I'm burning for her.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.