I'm an artist at heart.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, "This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven."

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.