Joe Morton

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed as part of who I am. I don't know if I have a preference.

What you find with really good directors is that they kind of leave you alone. They've hired you because they know the kind of work you do and the sense of how you'd approach it. So usually, they'll just stand back and maybe give you a nudge once in a while in terms of something specific they might want in a particular scene.

To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.

I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.