The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.