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

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

I want to be a part of great things.

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.

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