There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

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?

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

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

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.

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.

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