Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

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.

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

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.

Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?