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

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.

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

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.