We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.