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

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

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

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.