My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

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Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.