I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

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

I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

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.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.