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.

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.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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

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.