The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after filming the chariot race, and I assumed he was a professional chariot racer at that point, ... He'd bring me home sand from the massive arena.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.