Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

In 1973, I was shown a graphic of how dependent the United States was on nonrenewable resources like oil and coal and that little was being done to change that. It seemed irrefutable that we needed a change in direction or we'd be paying a huge price down the road. That's when I made a commitment to become a political activist.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.