In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.