I'm an artist at heart.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops... most of the people in the industry are the crew: writers, actors and directors. And so they understand what it is that we do, so they think, "Wow, what a incredible group of amazing actors." It's funny, I think there are a couple of reasons why we have never gotten any nomination for anything except for writing.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.