Morris Chestnut

“It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.”

“I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie.”

“You have to be insane to direct.”

“This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.”

“Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.”

“I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.”

“This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.”

“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 enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.”

“I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.”

“I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.”

“I'm just happy to be working consistently.”

“Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.”

“I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.”

“Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.”

“To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.”

“When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.”

“A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.”

“You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.”

“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.”