I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.