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I do not like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

I do not think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it is about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that is really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

I am also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I am doing it.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you are kind of roughing it, literally.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you are in the movies, you are rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

I do not enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can not engage with the story as well.

I have been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just have not been right for me.

I like high impact movies.

Here is the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That is their life. Whether you like it or not, I do not care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it is all coming out of the box.

If you are working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

Audiences do not ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there is nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Once you make a movie like Superbad, when it is popular and you are the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there is a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

All my friends were in college when I was making Superbad. We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It was not like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can not live like a kid forever, you know?