I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

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