“Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.”

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself.

I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.

I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters

When a child wants to be accepted, he’ll do anything.

I’m of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe.

The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention.

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them..

You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel.

There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.

I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense.

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.