I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.