I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

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 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.

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 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).

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

I want to be a part of great things.