There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

Fill the moment and find variety.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.