James mcbride

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

My family is my career.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.