"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."

"It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics."

"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."

"The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime."

"I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back."

"My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was."

"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."

"When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming."