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.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

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.

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

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

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

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

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.

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

Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the same person you were either.

You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

We are immortal till our work is done.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

All I ever wanted to be was a Ninja... Tong from Kickboxer, Sagat from Street Fighter.