Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.