I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.