Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.