I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

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

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

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

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.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

I hear music as narrative.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

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