I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

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.

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.

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

I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.

Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.