The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.