I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

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.

Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.