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.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

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.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change 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.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.