Chadwick Boseman

You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

I'm not one of those guys who walks around with a flip phone who doesn't want to be connected. There are times when I'm tech-friendly, and there are times when I personally do want to shut everything off because I'm more creative when I shut off.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

I'm not afraid to work.