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

Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

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.

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 see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.