I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.