I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.