In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious.

You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff about directing. No, you don't. You can know as much or as little as you have to. Your main job is to get great performances and tell the story correctly and capture it correctly. Then it's just basically yours to complicate or simplify as much as you want.