When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

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

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.