We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

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 want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

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

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

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.