When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

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

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

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