I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.