Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
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You do as much research as you can for any project.
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It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
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David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
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Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
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Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
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I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.
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I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.
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I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
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When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.
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I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
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London and L.A. are both places I feel I can call home. It's a nice balance of Californian calm and that slightly more engaged, electric London vibe that I've always loved.
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The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.
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If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.
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In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.