I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.