I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.