I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.