I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience interested. In fact, I asked some of the actors to take a look at His Girl Friday, a Howard Hawks film with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, because they talk over each other and there's a great energy.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.