[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!

We do not fight to tear down but to build up.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.