Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"