I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.

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

When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he was two or three years old and kept saying he wanted to be in the box. She finally realized he was talking about the television.

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

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

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.