I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

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.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

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).