When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.
I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
