I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

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.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

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

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

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