I Voted For Barack Because He Was

Not Everything's Made To Win An Academy Award.

I Never Had One Beer. If I Bought A Six-pack Of Beer, I Kept Drinking Till All Six Beers Were Gone. You Have To Have That Kind Of Understanding About Yourself. I Haven't Had A Drink Now In 12 Years.

I Was Gator In Jungle Fever, And Chris Rock Played Pookie, And Those Showed Two Very Different Dynamics Of What Crackheads Were. Mine Was More About The Family Relationships. So When People Sat There And Got That, They Can Sit There And Say, "oh, Man, That's My Friend." Or "that's My Brother." Or Cousin Or Somebody. They Empathize, Or They Had Something That They Could Latch Onto, In That Particular Movie, Of My Story, And Go With It.

There Are Tons Of Stories Out There. I Read A Lot Of Scripts On A Weekly Basis. I'm Looking For Stories To Tell And Stories That I Hope Will Be Interesting To An Audience.

Doing [a Relationship Comedy] With Sam [l. Jackson] Was Exciting. I've Done A Lot Of Comedies With A Lot Of Comedy People. My Peers. I've Never Worked With Anybody Of The Kind Of Dramatic Caliber Of Movie Actor That Sam Is. It Was A Little Bit Intimidating For The First Day. Or Two... Or The First Week. Other Than That, It Was A Joy.