Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.