It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.