There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

I entered the film industry because my family forced me into it.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

I'm the biggest family person you'll meet.