I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

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

Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.