In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.