As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

Timing has a lot to with art.