Chaka Pilgrim

"There’s nothing I won’t do. Literally, I still cold-call people. I called Lee Daniels the other day — I didn’t know him, I don’t know him. I said ‘hey, I don’t know if there are any productions, but I just want to kind of sit on your set’… I try to know every facet of what someone is doing so I can at least speak to it. Humility is key if you really want to know what you’re doing. I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that I immerse myself in the process because it’s really immersive. And I think you don’t know what situation you can learn from, but I’m going back to that place in my life of trying to figure it out. Basically, I don’t know what I’m doing is what I’m saying"

"I do feel like I’d rather be doing the wrong something than nothing"

"Your time is to take advantage of the opportunity. You can fix something that’s wrong, but you can’t go back to a moment that you couldn’t take advantage of"