“I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the r...” — Ashton Sanders Quote

“I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the room, and I didn't know the lines as well as I should have. I didn't know a thing about the script. I wasn't told anything. I heard it was a low-budget film, and my agent told me to do it. I was super-ignorant to it.”

“Hollywood is showing respect for all different types of art.”

“It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.”

“There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.”

“I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.”

“It's really crazy looking back on my bullies or whoever was trying to torment me or tease me, because karma is just, like, crazy.”

“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.”

“Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.”

“I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.”

“There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.”

“I was discovered when I was 13 by an agent. I was standing outside a coffee shop in Gothenburg, my hometown, when I was approached.”

“Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.”