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

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

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.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

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.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.