I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

It's insecure, and it's immature.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

I do believe in us as actors and directors and writers and producers and also as movie-goers. We have much more power than we believe we have. Without our ticket, studios can't make traditional decisions.