When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.

I gravitate towards gravitas.