You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

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?'

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

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.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.