Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.