When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.