The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.