After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always got one eye over there, kind of thinking of what they are doing, and how the shot is being composed. I think it takes a couple of films to just get back to just being an actor.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.