I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I'm emotionally invested in every movie that I do, period, because you've got to make that commitment. You're spending a year, 18 months of your life doing it. I'm invested in all those kinds of pieces. Most of the films I've had in my career have never tested well. I got lucky that sometimes I got supported by studios - or, at least if not supported, tolerated.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.