I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

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

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

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something