The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.