I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.