I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
“I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.”
“My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'”