Sanaa Lathan

"As a human being, you want to see your experience on-screen, and they're too few and far between for us."

"There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops."

"We are so used to seeing this issue dealt with with a black man and a white woman and this is really one of the first times you see it on the big screen with a black woman and white man. The difference is it's usually the couple against the world; but in this case it's really her. Her friends are really not against her. Her family is really not giving her too much [trouble]. It's really her own prejudices ... her own struggle with it. This could be a metaphor for doing anything outside of the box that you put yourself in. It could be a relationship with someone of a different religion or dating somebody outside of your class lines ... anything. When you step outside of your 'comfort zone,' how do you deal with that?"

"People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off."

"I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything."

"Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that."

"To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather."

"As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie."

"When you have a play, you have to be on every night."

"Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game."

"If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about."

"I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth."

"I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play."

"I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now."

"You would never expect a black woman to be the hero."

"CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you."

"I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role."