I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.