Is Joe your father, Zach?' I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to. 'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
God Tris, are you even human?
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'
Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.
I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.
Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?
