Zitat des Tages von Joe Morton:
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.
James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
'Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.
Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is 'that guy who happens to be black.'
I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
I would love to play the villain, but again, it's sort of what happens in this industry.
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
With my background, I came out of the theater.
'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.
It's important to know, whether you're pro or anti the current president and what he's doing, that he's doing what he thinks is for the betterment of the country because his interest is to make this country a better place.
I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.
There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.
I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
I was different. I got beat up every day.
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed as part of who I am. I don't know if I have a preference.
I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.
In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.
I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.
Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.
Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.
I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.