Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.