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" I would like to invest more of my brain space in understanding the history of my city, because whenever I learn about the history of Detroit, it's always so fascinating, from a little kind of beaver-trading post to the place where automobiles were manufactured. "

Keegan-Michael Key

Place

Space

Brain

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Guilt

Fool

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Know

People

" To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture. "

" Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career. "

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Yourself

Nature

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" There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie. "

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Movie

Looks

" I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions. "

" There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did. "

Keegan-Michael Key

Ever

Playwright

" For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. "

Keegan-Michael Key

Child

Thought