I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.