Q: Do you have any others that are laying around?

I got a couple.  I gotta go dust them off and see what’s there.  I dunno, this movie is such a jump for me that I don’t want to go backwards. I kind of like where I’m at artistically. I think I’m in a new zone or a zone that a lot of brothers don’t get to go into, so I’d like to stay here for a minute.

Q: What do you mean by brothers?

I don’t know. It’s just a different type of movie. It’s just really realistic. The real stuff? I don’t see a lot of that from us. 

Q: Where you inspired by any other directors? Because when I was watching it I was reminded of Albert Brooks.

I know every Woody beat, but Alexander Paye is really my living director idol right now. I’d love to work with him.

Q: How did you meet your own wife?

I met my wife – this is a great story.  I was at a Knicks game.  And me and my friends were leaving the Knick game and it’s at Madison Square Garden and right next store is the Theater at the Garden and they were having the Essence Awards.  And you see all these beautiful black women walking in.  And we’re like, ‘Man, we have got to crash this party.’  And we crashed the party, and it’s so funny, as we are walking through there it’s like all these women are so beautiful, ‘Hey, this is where you meet your wife. This spot.’  And I met my wife at the Essence Awards.

Q: What was your line?

I didn’t really have a line. She was working for Terry Williams at the time. She was working in publicity, so she actually came up to me and said, ‘Can you take some pictures with so and so?’  And I was like, ‘Hey, I’ll do whatever you want.’  (Laughs.)

Q: So how is ‘Bee Movie’?

‘Bee Movie’ is pretty good.  Jerry don’t play that. Jerry is thorough, man.

Q: Who do you play?  Have you seen any of it?

I play a mosquito.  It’s kind of cool.  I feel a little bit. It’s like ‘Shrek.’ It’s not like a whole new technology.  It’s like a little better than ‘Shrek.’ 

Q:  When he asked you to do the trailer did you think you were doing voices?

No, he told me what it was, but he actually told me Spielberg was going to be in it and when I get there, there is no Spielberg.  (Laughs.) So, he kind of owes me. I don’t know how. I’m just gonna hold on to that chip and just figure out when I get to cash it in.

Q: How is fatherhood?

Fatherhood is great. There is no downside to fatherhood. 

Q: You have done everything, what do you want to do next?

I just want to work with some good people. I’m so self generated. It’s not like, I’d rather be Matt Damon in ‘Hey, ‘Bourne Supremacy,’ when do we start?’  I’m not sitting around writing movies cause y’know, cause I want to. I have to if I want to take advantage of this opportunity and right now they are letting me be in movies. But, they don’t kind of make the kind of movies I want to make. They don’t let black people make them anyway.

Q: Does that mean the next project is going to be something you write and direct?

I would hope not.  Just cause I need a break. Y’know, but I’ll definietely write and direct soon. Y’know, give yourself two years, three years. That Woody every year thing is hard, but I like how Alexander does it.  Every three or four years he comes out with a new one.

Q: Are you going to go back to stand up?  Tour or special?

Hopefully this year.  Just a tour right now. I like it. I love it.

Q: Do you love topical stuff or political things you want to chat about?

Oh, I got to figure it out. It’s a good time. It’s like I write an act, I do it and then I wait for it to get a little stale and then I stop.  I hate to be out there and then you have to wait a few years for the world to change.

Q: What do you think of Barack Obama?

I like Barack Obama. I thought he was really good the other day, the speech in Selma.  I thought he was excellent. I thought he had the eloquence of Bill Clinton with all the fire and brimstone of Jessie Jackson. It was a powerful combination that I hadn’t seen from anybody.

Q: Are you going to go against type? Do something really serious?

This is serious. This is kind of against type. I’ve done ‘New Jack City’ and ‘Nurse Betty.’  If the right part I would love to, it’s just they don’t come along that much.  You’ve got to write it for yourself, y’know? I write this, I write TV shows, I write stand up.  I don’t want to be single at all. I have no desire to be single. It’s something to say in a movie, but if I was single, I’d be getting married.  I’d be getting married. Please… Who the hell wants to be single, I want to know who I’m eating with.