I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it.