My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

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

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.

I hear music as narrative.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.