Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

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

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We're all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that's part of being a human.

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

I'm never shaken or stirred.