My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to my grandchildren, that I have never dreamt of.