To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.

If your success is as a result of a trail of tears & hurt you left in anothers life, Karmas' watching.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.