We wanted the most dignified funeral we could have for him because that's the kind of person he was.

Are your rights to protest more important than my rights to grieve?

When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.

She has friends in England and prayer groups up and down the East Coast. So it's not just a Rocky Mount thing, Nash County thing or North Carolina thing.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.