It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.