Chiwetel Ejiofor People Quotations

I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.

Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.

If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.

I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.

There's always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people Ive ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were our people. For example, there were people from the west of Nigeria who were taken by the hundreds of thousands and brought to Louisiana. I'm Igbo; my family is Igbo. So it is a story that I'm connected to.