We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something where it doesn't belong. Contrary to what other people seem to think sometimes.

I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take.

I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Those are the rules. To improvise in a movie with other people, when they're following a script, everybody has to know what's going on. I think a line or two we might change. Certainly, I do. But I wouldn't call it improvising. I'd call it fudging the lines.

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.