Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, CBE, is a British actor. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995, and gaining a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at age 19 and three months into his course, Ejiofor was cast by Steven Spielberg to play a supporting part in the film Amistad as James Covey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 July 1977
Chiwetel Ejiofor quotes about
hard
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
inherited perspective stories tradition
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
came clear people second simplified war
The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
artificial environment good work
We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.
great life scripts spend traveling trying weird
It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.