My captors did not beat me or treat me badly. They saw me as a political tool and that is why they made me make a video.

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.