Jeffrey Wright

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.

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.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I don't like to get in front of people.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.