I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far..

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out b….

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

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

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

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for ….

I knew I was happy when I was dancing..

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

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory..

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audit….

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11..

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Hav….

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in..

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

I think that I have sold out sometimes..

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

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together..

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

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold..

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..

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It pa….