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It's So Funny When People Who Are Not Used To Making Movies Get Into It. You Just Can't Believe How Insufferably Boring It Is. Waiting Around And Doing These Lines Over And Over And Finally Having To Go In And Loop The Lines And Dub Them.

When You Perform With A Live Audience, The Audience Comes Back To You, So That You And The Audience Are Giving To Each Other, In A Sense. It's An Extraordinary Thing. It's Wild Turf Up There.

Chekhov Was As Important To Me As Anybody As A Writer.

I Wanted To Be A Baseball Player, Naturally, But I Wasn't Good Enough. I Didn't Know What I Was Going To Do With My Life. I Just Had A Kind Of Energy, I Was A Fairly Happy Kid.

Many Years Ago, In The Late '70s, I Toured Colleges Along The East Coast And I Presented A Kind Of Show Where I Got A Lot Of Books And Poetry And Pieces Of [william] Shakespeare And Other Writers That I Admire, Read It To The Class And Then Afterward We Would Talk And I Would Answer Questions. It Was Really A Way Of Expressing And Finding Out About Where I Was At That Particular Time, So It Was Very Therapeutic For Me.