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"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
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"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."
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"Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day."
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"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real."
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"You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction."
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"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
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"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards."
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"Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter."
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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors."
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"Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting."
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"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie."
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"I'm a historian in my own mind."
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"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies."
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"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here."
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"To me, America is just another market."
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"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."
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"Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do."
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"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
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