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.

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.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.

Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.

I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.

In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.