Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Do not turn me intorestless watersif you cannot promiseto be my stream.

crawled like a blind slug into the web

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.