I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.