Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.