I Have Friends, African-American Actors, Who've Had More Of A Struggle; Hopefully They're Starting To See Some Air And Light Now. But In My Directing Career, In My Acting Career, In My Producing Career, I Haven't Been Bound By A Lot Of Limitations. When I First Started Doing These Kinds Of Unique Characters, These Diverse Characters, There Was Hardly Anybody Doing Them. So I Had This Open Road. - SearchQuotes

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I have friends, African-American actors, who've had more of a struggle; hopefully they're starting to see some air and light now. But in my directing career, in my acting career, in my producing career, I haven't been bound by a lot of limitations. When I first started doing these kinds of unique characters, these diverse characters, there was hardly anybody doing them. So I had this open road.

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