I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

Because wherever I am today I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course two very special women my mother and my wife.

I met Elijah Wood once I met Peter Jackson I met Orlando Bloom and they're all really cool.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.