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 jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

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

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

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

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