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.

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.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

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.