"I started developing a social conscious when I would read biographies about people like Dr. King and other leaders who put themselves on the line to make big change happen,"

"Then there's this show called The First 48. It's a documentary about killings where they try and find murderers. They interrogate people and they tell on each other - it's hilarious."

"I've always looked at people such as Steve McQueen for influence. His clothes, his sense of style, the way he looked in pictures, the way he was as a personality."

"The scholar argues that people are wired to see patterns in chaos while remaining blind to unpredictable events, with massive consequences. Experimentation and empiricism trumps the easy and obvious narrative."

"Mike Leigh's films and television films from the Thatcher era – Grown-Ups, Bleak Moments, The Kiss of Death, all centered around working class people trapped by a lack of means."

"Okay—the wit. Hopkins and Marshall in the taxi at the end. The staircases. The portrayal of people in their twenties and thirties who were adults. And enjoyed being adults."

"I've always looked at people such as Steve McQueen for influence. His clothes, his sense of style, the way he looked in pictures, the way he was as a personality."