Occupation: Actor Birth: February 21, 1979
For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way hum….
We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual..
Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way..
The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have..
Sometimes blessings come in strange packages..
With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist..
How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts..
I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression..
We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation….
The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together..
A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second..
There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on..
[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy..
I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinc….
What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people..
You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmm….
I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out..
I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious….
If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing..
I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen..
Racism is within each and every one of us..