Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Keep on being yourself.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.