 America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. |
| In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me. |
| I think that I have sold out sometimes. |
| I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. |
| It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. |
| My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part. |
| When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically. |
| I hear music as narrative. |
| The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. |
| It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. |
| I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. |
| Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. |
| I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. |
| All India radio was worldwide. |
| The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. |
| There's got to be something greater than us. |
| I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11. |
