The Foundation For Film Acting Is Stage

Landing The Airplane I Think Is The Most Difficult Thing That I've Every Learned To Do In My Life.

I Think That Anybody's Craft Is Fascinating. A Taxi Driver Talking About Taxi Driving Is Going To Be Very, Very Interesting.

When You're Talking About The Thing That Is Most Important To Someone, They're Liable To Feel Something Strong.

I Stopped Writing At The Age Of 18. I Had Written Incessantly Before That. I Read, Of Course, Because I Was In University, But I Wasn't Going To Write. I Wasn't Going To Do Any Of Those Dangerous Things. I Was Going To Be A Stolid, Bourgeois Lawyer.

I'd Been On Everybody Else's Show And There Was Always A Preinterview. Somebody Would Come With A Tape Recorder And You'd Talk For Three Or Four Hours, And They'd Take It Back And It Would Be Transcribed, And It Would Be Given To The Writers, Those Many Writers You See On All Those Shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, Etc. And Then They Choose The Answers That Will Be Most Evocative On Their Show.