Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.