I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.

I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

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

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.