Biografia

Wrote, directed and produced two short films that won awards at the Worldfest Houston film competition and the USA Film Festival.

Skilled in martial arts.

BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1984)

He was nominated for a 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Two Trains Running" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Auditioned for the role of Ben in A Noite dos Mortos-Vivos (1990).

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.