I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.