Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"

In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.