Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

I'm an artist at heart.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure Im balancing time between my career and my personal life.

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.