So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.