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. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
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. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
I’ve always been a believer in research. It’s great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
Normally, if you’re lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn’t have access to previously. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it’s important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
