There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.