“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I hear music as narrative.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.