I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

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 want to be a part of great things.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

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 started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.

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