With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.