You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zone when you're a child. At first you play different sides of yourself. And I think it will be really exciting one day to have a character to go into that's not anything like me whatsoever.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.