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“I don't like message movies either.”
“It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.”
“The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.”
“President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.”
“I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.”
“I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.”
“I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.”
“I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.”
“I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.”
“Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.”
“But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.”