Independent film making is very collaborative. You feel like it's you, the director and other actors and you really feel like you have the final say. When you do the bigger films, the studio has to give the final thumbs up and they're usually not big on risk taking because they're trying to make money.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

For me the movie [Fruitvale Station ] wasn't about that. The movie's about [Oscar Grant] life. And what happens on the platform is a very short part of the film. It's from Oscar's perspective. From the perspectives of the relationships that he's involved with.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.

I'm a comic book fan.