You have to be insane to direct.

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.

Everybody has multiple personalities—at least three. We’re one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society.

The game isn't over until it's over.

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal

We were not born to sue, but to command.