Stephan James

“I care a lot about who I'm working with as directors and other actors.”

“I want to continue to grow and evolve, and I want to help other people grow and evolve.”

“I feel like I've always been an actor.”

“The best filmmakers have a very familial attitude in sort of embracing the set, beyond the cast, with the wardrobe, and the hair and makeup, and the props, just making everybody feel very familial.”

“I really appreciate Barry Jenkins as a filmmaker and the fact that he's always wanting to push the envelope and challenge perspective and make people uncomfortable in a way that doesn't seem like it's allowed anymore.”

“Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.”

“Everything I do is just an opportunity to tell a great story.”

“My parents are from Jamaica, and I love reggae music.”

“When we started making 'Selma,' the Black Lives Matter movement didn't exist. The parallels between Martin Luther King staging these marches, suffering police brutality... we weren't even aware when making the film that these sorts of things would start to happen again in 2015.”