Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.