Aldis Hodge

With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but…

— Aldis Hodge

The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus…

— Aldis Hodge

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over.…

— Aldis Hodge

I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls…

— Aldis Hodge

My mom experienced racism. She was harassed by the KKK several times. And I experienced racism myself, growing up. In New Jersey,…

— Aldis Hodge

You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity -…

— Aldis Hodge

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

— Aldis Hodge

You don't ever want to seem less than a person.

— Aldis Hodge

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought…

— Aldis Hodge

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

— Aldis Hodge

A new setting is amazing cause it's new for the team, and it's new for our characters. It's a breakaway from the…

— Aldis Hodge

Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually…

— Aldis Hodge

Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something…

— Aldis Hodge

I want to have a resume that is substantial enough to hold itself as respectful.

— Aldis Hodge

I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For…

— Aldis Hodge

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

— Aldis Hodge

When you do learn these things, when you understand what inclusion is, then we can accomplish greater things together.

— Aldis Hodge

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit…

— Aldis Hodge

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we…

— Aldis Hodge

Surviving the elements is working, but being on set and having to do a scene and being in a room with the…

— Aldis Hodge

I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may…

— Aldis Hodge

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.…

— Aldis Hodge

Every job you do, somebody's looking at it. You're leaving an impression on somebody. What is going to be your footprint?

— Aldis Hodge

As far as playing different characters within the character, I think that's fun. Very rarely, on TV, do you get to do…

— Aldis Hodge

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

— Aldis Hodge