I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.