It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

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.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

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.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

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