There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.