What kind of role do you play after someone like Stringer, you know what I mean? You play another gangster. What’s the point of that? I’ve played the gangster. I try to keep it really varied; it just makes for more of a fun and interesting career.

I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever. Most people get it.

What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.

Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.