The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

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.