Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

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'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.

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.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.