“I think that so often, when you enter journalism or creative fields, you kind of get the message that you’re allowed to be yourself— to a...
“During Black Panther, I came to the table with a knowledge of history, and I did research. Even with the latest technologies in costume design...
“I got into this business because I’m a very restless person. It’s funny, a good friend of mine—somebody I had done a play with in the fall—said...
“When I made the decision to come out and share my story, I never processed what happened in between. I felt like it was just what I had to do at the...
“There’s power in the quiet moments between words. Being comfortable in silence—to not be afraid of it—is not just about stand-up. Once I...
“There’s a line from the play that Sidney says— ‘The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.’...
“Any useful diversion from someone’s attention to say watch this, listen to this — I take very seriously. If I’m going to ask them to take an hour to...
“My friends and I will be having a wonderful moment—sunset, driving back from Malibu—and they’re like, we all know you’re going to write a song about...
“I really felt myself in Catherine Keener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. I was watching myself, in a way. We just got each other, there was a sisterhood...
“There is a system of laws that’s a web of disenfranchisement that no one really knows exists. Nine out of ten of the 70-80 million people with some...
“I’ve settled into myself a little more. I think that’s all you can hope for. I’m really grateful to have a job where you have to...
“To invite someone into your home feels very intimate. It’s like a fast track to intimacy, in a way that nothing else really is. People’s memories...
“Film is a medium where you are asking people to relate to it personally, so there’s an amount of projection that’s necessary in the audience...
“For me, there’s always a process of exiting a character. It doesn’t necessarily mean I let go of it; it actually feels like more of an absorption...
“Not having enough time feels like a very individual and personal experience, but it actually is an expression of the fact that we have to sell our...
“As a comedian, this one thing stuck with me early on: maybe if you were in a drama, you’d have more of a special energy that could help that...
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