You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.