A good script is a good script. 'Driving Miss Daisy' stands as it is. The author's intentions are clear and the story pretty much tells itself.

It feels so real, so honest. The author knew these people. Their stories unfold naturally.

When I first went over the script, I said to myself, 'Let the work appear for itself. I hope it will and I hope it will give audiences yet another memorable version of 'Driving Miss Daisy.

But race is not the only theme in the play. It's also about dignity, about growing old, about living your life with integrity. Those are big themes, but they are so much a part of the story that you don't really think of them as themes.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

It's been a terrible fiasco.