The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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

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