Harrison Ford

I did not have a history of religious affiliation.

My mother was Jewish, my father Catholic.

To give me any ethical understanding, I was raised Democrat.

So I'm quite happy to accept other people's

versions of God, but I found in a Protestant theologian named Paul Tillich a sentence that said, if you have trouble with the word God, take whatever is central and most meaningful to your life and call that God.

And to me that was life itself, the complexity, the biodiversity, the incredible integration and complexity of nature, to me seemed to be the same thing as God.

And so I prepared an explanation that was probably so...

unusual that it found the edge of a desk and had a lot of things piled on top of it because it didn't fit a niche.

They never got back to me, basically.

The draft board never got back to me.

I lived in a neighborhood of apartment buildings, four-story apartment buildings.

My father was working in advertising.

We were a comfortable, middle-class kind of environment.

My father was a radio actor.

At a certain point in his life.

He did a show on the vaudeville circuit with four or five other guys in a show that was called Gangbusters.

And they did a...

a different radio play each week and traveled the vaudeville circuit, stood around a microphone in tuxedos and did a radio play.

That was his theatrical career.

He later did a bit of writing and then became a producer and director of television commercials.