I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising.

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

MIND & GRINDSelf-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers

Trying is better option than giving up..

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.