He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.