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.

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.

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 foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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

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.