You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.