I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.