Boseman: "I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth."

Boseman: "You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them."

Boseman: "Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies."

Boseman: "I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical."

Boseman: "As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process."

Boseman: "I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything."

Boseman: "I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things."

Boseman: "I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface."

Boseman: "When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically."

Boseman: "Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back."

Boseman: "People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different."

Boseman: "The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people."

Boseman: "I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on."

Boseman: "Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills."

Boseman: "When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe."

Boseman: "Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show."

Boseman: "Nobody has to give me permission to write."

Boseman: "I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that."

Boseman: "When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you."

Boseman: "One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'"

Boseman: "Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier."

Boseman: "People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that."

Boseman: "I remember my first agent telling me - because they found me as an actor, but I was probably more interested in writing and maybe directing - they were like, 'Well, you can't do both things.' And I was like, 'I'm gonna show you.'"

Boseman: "I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles."

Boseman: "In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role."

Boseman: "There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear."

Boseman: "A superhero movie is only as great as its villains."

Boseman: "In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is."

Boseman: "We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button."

Boseman: "The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people - to black people."

Boseman: "You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure."

Boseman: "People of African descent, most of us grew up accepting and loving Spider-Man. I still love Spider-Man. I still love the Incredible Hulk. I still have those characters that were white role models, superheroes, heroes - whatever you want to call it. You basically had no choice but to accept those."

Boseman: "Colonialism is the cousin of slavery."

Boseman: "I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you."

Boseman: "I don't read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers."

Boseman: "When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself."

Boseman: "I'm not afraid to work."

Boseman: "For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something."

Boseman: "I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them."

Boseman: "When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily."

Boseman: "I'm not so keen on letting my car drive itself."