We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

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.

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.

Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

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

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.