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

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

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

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.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.