As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on … - Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

you need to be able to step outside yourself, and you don’t necessarily need to have real-life experiences to draw upon.

There’s a social attitude toward being fairly accepting of violence, and coupled with the access to guns, in some ways we’re already at a place where in certain communities, gun violence is already rife—and in some ways, because of policy, it’s kind of condoned from the top.