I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.