Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could... we have to... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.