When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I feel like every time I go out I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.