I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?