Jeffrey Wright

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.