These issues are still what drive wars today. I wanted to explore the human side of the people of the Holocaust.

We work for people getting the raw end of the deal. I love the job today as much as the day I began.

We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don't see what a vibrant life force there is in hip-hop.

What I realized almost immediately is – I'm all over the place. I don't want to knock something down today, replace it and two years later have to move it again to make way for the next project.

People ask me if I'd like to be a teenager today, I'd have to say, "Not really." I'd never have gotten to meet Frank Sinatra. I wouldn't have ever known Quinn, Gregory Peck, David Niven or Lee Thompson or Carl Foreman or Shelley Winters or Burl Ives. I wouldn't have known those people.

There've been a lot of people asking for honest budget numbers, ... Today, we have those honest numbers. Now it's the hard truth we have to confront. Today, we define the numbers and within two weeks we present proposed solutions on how to deal with the problem.