"Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very…"

"Success for me will be where the body of work I’ve done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to…"

"There’s a lot more opportunity to be a person of color, to be a woman, and to be at the center of the storytelling."

"you need to be able to step outside yourself, and you don’t necessarily need to have real-life experiences to draw upon."

"There’s a social attitude toward being fairly accepting of violence, and coupled with the access to guns, in some way…"

"Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice;…"

"Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cher…"

"Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'…"

"I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Quee…"

"One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able t…"