I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know?

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.