However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.