I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.