As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

The reason why things work is because of love.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.