The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

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

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

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.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.