I hear music as narrative.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

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

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.

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.

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

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