Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.