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You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.

You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.