There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.