I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.