I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.