When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.”
“Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.”