Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.”
“The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.”