My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.
I won't make a movie for money ever again.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.
I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.
A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.
Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.
A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.
Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.
I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
