In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.No human being is superior over another.

Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.

I told (God) I'd take every opportunity to speak for the kids who can't speak.

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

Love follows knowledge.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.