I am also producing and writing a bunch..

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin Mc….

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imag….

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great p….

I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life and some o….

I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story….

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms ….

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most co….

I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the s….

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham..

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need..

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his pla….

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and h….

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those….

Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it i….

You turn up in the morning, you get through hair and make-up, and then you are on set working until it's time to go home. And I love that. Coming fro….

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me..

The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are re….

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard..

Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way..

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed….