California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

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.

On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.