Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

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.

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.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.