There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

I was trained as a straight dramatist..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time..

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

I've never not been famous..

I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I have to change to stay the same..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I ask….