I'd Always Admired Diane Keaton, But I'd

We Must Agree To Live In This World, With All That Is Unfair About It, Without Knowing Why, If We Wish To Have A God In Our Lives.

I Was Always Around People Who Were In The Business From The Time I Was An Absolute Baby. I Grew Up In New York City, And My Parents, My Sister, And I Had A House On Fire Island, And They Were Part Of A Set Of People That Were All Close And Friendly, Most Of Whom Were Involved In Show Business In One Regard Or Another. So It Was Always Familiar To Me, And I Kind Of Enjoyed It.

I've Always Thought That, In A Sense, The More Specific And Sometimes Even The Smaller The World Of A Movie Is, The More Universal It Is.

Though I Acted In Hundreds Of Productions, Appeared At The Guthrie Theatre And On Broadway In Amadeus, I Discovered In My Thirties That I Didn't Really Like Stage Acting. The Presence Of The Audience, The Eight Shows A Week And The Possibility Of A Long Run Were All Unnatural To Me.

Most Of The Time When I Receive A Script, It Says Something Like 'rosenberg Is The Fat, Slovenly Mayor, Who Doesn't Want The Kids To Use The Skateboard Park,' Or 'stein Is A Pompous, Rotund Attorney, Imposing To All.' It Would Be So Freeing To Get A Script Where My Character Is Simply Described As 'a Man.'