You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.

A star on earth - a star in heaven.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.