When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.