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

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.