I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

Is typecasting really a problem?

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.