If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.