It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

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

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

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.

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.

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.