If There's An Interesting Role That Comes

Young Guys Don't Tend To Want To Portray People Who Have Frailties Or Are Less Than Macho.

I Was Gator In Jungle Fever, And Chris Rock Played Pookie, And Those Showed Two Very Different Dynamics Of What Crackheads Were. Mine Was More About The Family Relationships. So When People Sat There And Got That, They Can Sit There And Say, "oh, Man, That's My Friend." Or "that's My Brother." Or Cousin Or Somebody. They Empathize, Or They Had Something That They Could Latch Onto, In That Particular Movie, Of My Story, And Go With It.

We Both [me And Eugene Levy] Come From The Same Place. Eugene Did Most Of His Work In Sctv And Ensemble Situations. I'd Done All This Theater Work Before I Got Into Movies And Ensemble Situations. We Both Learned How To Develop Characters And Interact With Other People In A Unique And Economic Sort Of Way.

I Actually Think I Have An Audience Member's Sensibility About Going To The Movies.

What I Remember From [the First Meeting With Samuel L. Jackson] Was That He Was A Friendly, Animated Kind Of Guy. His Screen Image Is A Hard Boiled Intimidating Kind Of Character. That's What I Remembered Thinking, 'boy, This Guy Seems Like A Normal Guy.'