My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

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

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.