I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.