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.

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.

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.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.