My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.