God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.