I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

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

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.