The audience loves it when you pay attention to details.

I've got two smoking guns that just look incredible, and I love to pull them out whenever I can.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

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.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

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