You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Each person has a literature inside them.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.