People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.